Barcelona vs Sevilla, by La Liga Santander, live, minute by minute: Lionel Messi's team wants to continue on a roll

04/10/2020 - 13:01

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Barcelona and Seville star this Sunday, October 4, in the duel that closes Date 5 of the Santander League in Spain

, at the Camp Nou.

The clash occurs between the only two teams that have achieved an ideal score so far, in the pair of matches that each one has played, and with

.

From 4:00 p.m. (Argentine time)

, Catalans and Andalusians face off with the arbitration of Jesús Gil Manzano and

(channels 610 and 1610 in HD).

Leo Messi regained his smile after the crisis he unleashed when he tried to leave Barcelona.

(AFP)

Without achieving brilliant performances and in the midst of a reconversion of his game scheme, Ronald Koeman's new Barcelona managed, however, to win his first two games with goals and maintain his own undefeated fence.

At least so far, Lionel Messi gave the main sector of the marquee to the youthful Ansu Fati, the great Barcelona player at the start of the League, who scored three of his team's seven goals.

He made a double in the 4 to 0 against Villarreal and the remaining in the 3 to 0 against Celta de Vigo, with the added value that they were the many that opened each victory.

In this context,

, although his presence always represents a threat to rival defenses, so much so that he was the intellectual author of one of Barça's goals in Vigo, the one that he made against the Uruguayan side Lucas Olaza after a stack of the Argentine entering the area.

So far, the captain could only score from a penalty against Villarreal, so he will seek to find himself again with a goal played against the rival who suffered the most in his entire career.

Messi's last celebration against Sevilla: October 6, 2019 (AFP)

Against Seville,

(29 in the League, 4 in the Spanish Super Cup, 2 in the Copa del Rey and 2 in the European Super Cup), and the last one dates from almost a year ago, the October 6, 2019, when

.

Sevilla will be the third and last test before the stoppage for the FIFA date

, and it will undoubtedly be the most complicated of this first section, so adding a full nine points in the first three games would give arguments to those who believe that there are reasons for hope.

Seville goes to Barcelona to play its fourth official game of the season in ten days

, after

began on September 24 in Budapest, with the final of the European Super Cup against Bayern Munich (defeat 2 to 1).

There are Argentines Marcos Acuña and Lucas Ocampos, the great figure of the team.

Sevilla's visit to the Barça field is almost always a martyrdom

, as evidenced by the fact that it has lost the last eleven games played at the Camp Nou, where it also has not added points since its 0-0 draw in the 2011-12 League. and has not won since January 2010, in the knockout stages of the Copa del Rey.